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Scribe's Forge
Description
Tracy Hickman has been writing and exploring fantasy and science fiction since the 1970s. Tracy eventually became a New York Times bestselling author (with Margaret Weis) of numerous series such as Dragonlance, the Death Gate Cycle, Darksword, and Rose of the Prophet. Together with his wife Laura, Tracy co-created the Dragonlance and Ravenloft games and, more recently, their own fantasy series, The Bronze Canticles. Tracy and Laura live in the Salt Lake Valley of Utah and have four children.
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LibraryThing member superant
I did not care for the book. I found the writing technique adequate, but the handling of government oppression of AIDS-like infected "gay" individuals seemed to be very dated. While, there are some parts of the world today where "gay" individuals are losing their civil rights and being oppressed,
I suppose readers who might like it are fans of government conspiracy writing or those wanting a time-capsule into attitudes towards gays and AIDS from the 1990s.
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the language, understanding and terminology in this book is stuck in the 1990s when the book was written. It was not to my taste. I suppose readers who might like it are fans of government conspiracy writing or those wanting a time-capsule into attitudes towards gays and AIDS from the 1990s.
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LibraryThing member WinonaBaines
The U.S. in 2010 - ravaged by disease and slowly stifled by martial law. A lthal virus known as V_CIDS strikes everyone. Despite desperate efforts to control it, entire cities have succumbed. Emergency Relocation & Isolation Services - death camps - have been created. Michael Barris, a tv star,
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goes into one looking for his son. Show Less
LibraryThing member ladyoflorien
This book is written in 1997 and is set in 2020. I enjoyed the book although you really have to keep in mind when it was written or you will find the views expressed by the government to be outdated. I enjoyed the dystopian setting around the internment camps if you were infected with V-SIDs, the
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intolerance of people towards what they don't understand or wish to accept, and the conspiracy surrounding the camps. You can really imagine something like this happening with today's intolerance of "other". Show Less
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